How is free will related to the meaning of life? Most people consider free will (or at least agency) to be necessary for meaning in their life (although interestingly, not always necessary for meaning in the overall existence of the universe). But why is this the case? If we lived in a world in which free will was clearly absent, would we then accept that our lives had no meaning, or would we redefine meaning to have some other source? Also, agency is clearly spectral, in that no one has complete freedom to make choices entirely unconstrained and uncoerced. Does it follow that a life’s meaning is (all other things being equal) in proportion to the decision-making freedom that that entity has?